Re: Change a file date (creation and modification)
Re: Change a file date (creation and modification)
- Subject: Re: Change a file date (creation and modification)
- From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:47:31 +0100
Le 13/02/11 21:00, email@hidden a écrit :
From: Matt Deatherage<email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Change a file date (creation and modification)
To: KOENIG Yvan<email@hidden>
Cc: liste AppleScript US<email@hidden>
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On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:53 AM, KOENIG Yvan<email@hidden> wrote:
> I must say thank you because what surprised you give us a fine tip to change a creation date which may be useful in some cases.
I feel obliged to point out that at the OS level (Carbon/Cocoa/POSIX), you can always change the creation date of a file, as it is just a piece of metadata like any other -- modification date, filename, or even creator type or file type in HFS Plus data. This is how all archiving programs work: when you unzip or unstuff something, the files inside get their original creation/modification dates, not the date/time when you decompressed the archive and recreated the original files. Same with backup utilities, etc.
My first reaction (to the non working creation date…) was to open and
read the dictionary to find that - for AppleScript - creation date is a
r/o property.
Yvan: that was not my usage / what I had in mind, but good usage idea
('till it will be disallowed in 10.6.7 or Lion).
Matt: I have the same feeling, and I was going to use another
development tool, but I tried the Modification date property to check if
it works here…
Regards,
Emile
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